When the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law on January 8, 2002, my son was halfway through the first grade. Little did I know that the NCLB, which sounded like a good idea at the time, would have a ripple effect that would rob my son of a decent education.
You see, my son is a gifted learner. I’m under no illusion that he’s the next Albert Einstein, but his scholastic abilities definitely outpace those of his classmates. Like many gifted kids, his social maturity doesn’t match his intellectual maturity, so he’s had challenges in his relationships with other children. Nonetheless, during first and second grade, he already knew all of the curriculum. Unfortunately, there was no mechanism in place for him to get into an accelerated learning program. Instead, his class was split into two; the students who were proficient started and ended the school day a half hour earlier than those who needed remediation. The students who were remedial learners got their extra half hour after the “earlies” left for the day.
Being new to the public school system, I thought I simply needed to be patient. I believed that, once he was...
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